Microsoft disappoints Wall Street

A $900-million charge related to Surface RT inventory adjustments has seen software giant Microsoft post lower than expected results for its fourth quarter, with its share price dropping 5% immediately after the news. The company announced quarterly revenue of...

3fifteen wins MS SharePoint accreditation

South African companies with enterprise licence agreements with Microsoft for its SharePoint product range may have credits for free planning and deployment services for the software that they have not used and are not aware of. So says Jimi Lutz, MD of the Solutions...

CyberPro Consulting wins Gold partner status

CyberPro Consulting, backed by PBT Group, has recently been awarded Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, in affirmation of the company’s commitment to Microsoft technology. Says Petr Havlik, MD of CyberPro Consulting; “Being a recognised Microsoft Gold Certified...

NetApp, Microsoft in $15m collaboration

NetApp has announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference that it is investing up to $15-million in new ecosystem sales collaboration and continued technology integration with Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of enterprise cloud deployments.  The NetApp...

Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya lead UC market

A new IDC MarketScape report has found that Cisco, Microsoft and Avaya are leaders in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market for 2013. “UC&C customers have a variety of excellent platforms to choose from, but also the challenge of figuring...